White House Says Trump’s Proposal to Rename Veterans Day Has Been Scrapped
Published: 5 May 2025
By Richard Sisk
via the Military.com website
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President Donald Trump speaks during an event to announce that the 2027 NFL Draft will be held on the National Mall, in the Oval Office of the White House, Monday, May 5, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
The White House has backed off President Donald Trump’s stunning social media proposal to change the name of Veterans Day to “Victory Day for World War I” and will settle for keeping the name while adding a proclamation hailing American victory in World War I.
The White House will also go with a victory proclamation rather than a name change — at least in the U.S. — for V-E Day, or Victory in Europe Day, which is observed every May 8 in Europe and May 9 in Russia to mark Nazi Germany’s surrender to the allies in World War II.
“We are not renaming Veterans Day,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told ABC News on Friday. “It will just be an additional proclamation that goes out on that day.”
Leavitt also posted on Trump’s Truth Social platform: “We will always honor Veterans Day, and we should commemorate the end of WWI and WWII as victory days.”
The quick about-face by the White House came after Trump stirred up opposition from veterans groups to his late-night post Thursday on Truth Social: “Many of our allies and friends are celebrating May 8th as Victory Day, but we did more than any other country, by far, in producing a victorious result on World War II. I am hereby renaming May 8th as Victory Day for World War II and November 11th as Victory Day for World War I.”
The argument could be made that victory for World War II on May 8, 1945, was way off the mark since the war in the Pacific raged on and did not end until the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki brought about Japan’s official surrender on Sept. 2, 1945.
However, the latest proposed name changes were in line with other name changes Trump has put in place with little opposition in his second term in office.
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